Humberto Tortonese, as a delirious mother in a character tailored to her

Sa the nature of the mother as the omnipresent axis, vassa, the work of Máximo Gorky in a version by Felicitas Kamien, Walter Jakob and Agustín Mendilaharzu, moved the original story of pre-Bolshevik Russia to an Argentina in the midst of a social explosion. But beyond that temporal and spatial change, Vassa’s character, played by Humberto Tortonese, dominates the scene.

Directed by Felicitas Kamien, this free version shows the generality of social conflictstraversing geographies and historical periods, although in this case, the nuances refer to a universe known to viewers in which inflation, the price of the dollar and other issues are discussed.

In a house destroyed by crisis and laziness, a family lives between all sorts of barriers and a certain disregard for a fact which, outside the door, appears catastrophic. And between those four walls is the same or worse, because everything is hung by a thread.

The long -awaited inheritance

While his wife was dying in a small hospital room inside their own house, a few meters from where the other family was eating breakfast, Vassa tried to keep the clan’s reins. But inheritance disputes will be bitter and unprincipled.

The woman on the brink of madness, madness, intolerant and authoritarianism has reasons why she does not want to give up even the slightest bit of power: her three children, whom she classifies, as innocent, as a group of worthless people, are his karma. . He wanted to protect them at the same time they were an unbearable burden., and seems irreversible. The useless, above, are encouraged to question their authority.

All this strange and soulless group of people survive thanks to the money Vassa manages but, on the edge of the abyss, they have shown themselves capable of anything. What they don’t consider is that Vassa is also willing to do anything for continued maintenance of control over the completely destroyed home.

futuristic wind

In a clear surprising tone, the version has a certain futuristic and dystopian air, enhanced by lighting and costumes. And sometimes it seems delirium plays a bit in the horror genre in a timeless and decadent world.

Horacio Marassi, Anabella Bacigalupo, Javier Pedersoli, Mariano Sayavedra, Andrea Nussembaum, Darío Levy, Viviana Vázquez, Rita Gonzalez and Diego Báez are the main characters in this column, in that family and social system where chaos reigns and everyone tries a every man for himself there are insane moments.

Gorky conceived Vassa Zheleznova in 1910 and, after the Russian Revolution, completely rewrote it. But kept from the original work Vassa’s character is huge, Far from the Russian revolution, very close to the Creole financial crisis, this local Vassa wants to resist at all costs, whose changes are worn by everyone. And it has methods.

Humberto Tortonese takes advantage of his best resources as an actor to give to him a unique imprint on this matriarchand show that you can be scared and laugh at the same time. His histrionics and his body versatility to take the character to the extreme, while making him convincing, are incredible.

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Qualifications: Very good

from: Maxim Gorky free version: Congratulations Kamien, Walter Jakob and Agustín Mendilaharzu Directions: Congratulations Kamien Cast: Humberto Tortonese, Horacio Marassi, Anabella Bacigalupo, Javier Pedersoli, Mariano Sayavedra, Andrea Nussembaum, Darío Levy, Viviana Vázquez, Rita Gonzalez and Diego Báez Theater: Regio Av. Córdoba 6056. Functions: Thursday to Sunday Locations: $ 1050 (Thursday, $ 650).

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